New Book Toc: to Fix Torah in Their Hearts

H-Judaic New Book ToC: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts

Discussion published by Jason Kalman on Friday, May 24, 2019

We are pleased to announce the publication of:

To Fix Torah in Their Hearts: Essays on Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Studies in Honor of B. Barry Levy edited by

Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter, and Vanessa R. Sasson (Hebrew Union College Press)

Contents Introduction 1 Jaqueline S. du Toit, Jason Kalman, Hartley Lachter, and Vanessa R. Sasson

Of Sons and Students 9

David, Jonathan, and Daniel Levy

Text, Texture, Context, Pretext: Biography of a Professor, Educator, Mentor, Researcher 11

Deborah Abecassis

Body of Work 15

Diviners in High Places: On Interpreting the Night Skies of the Ancient Near East 23 Andrea D. Lobel

Hate in Early Rabbinic Traditions 59 Joel Gereboff

Naming Names: The Meaning and Significance of Disputes and the Use of Attributions to Named Authorities in Mishnah 85 Jack N. Lightstone

A Cairo Genizah Fragment of Genesis Rabbah from the Collection of McGill University 119 Jason Kalman and the Students of 135–535a: Exegetical Midrash (McGill University, 2000)

Between Narrative and Exegesis: Miyyad in Midrash Genesis Rabbah 145 Shawn Zelig Aster

Stories of Excess: Abraham and Vessantara 171 Vanessa R. Sasson

Taking Stock of the Text(s) of Rashi’s Torah Commentary: Some Twenty- First Century

Citation: Jason Kalman. New Book ToC: To Fix Torah in Their Hearts. H-Judaic. 05-24-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/4145418/new-book-fix-torah-their-hearts Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Judaic

Considerations and the Case for Leipzig 1 199 Yedida Eisenstat

“The Earth is Only for the Strong”: Interpretations of b. Sanhedrin 58b in High Medieval Europe 233 Jesse Abelman

Radak’s Preemptive Exegesis: Concealed and Revealed Polemic in the Book of Kings 257 Bryna Jocheved Levy

The Maharshal and Two Inverted Nuns 287 Sholom Eisenstat

An Anonymous Commentary on the Ten Sefirot: Text and Translation 331 Hartley Lachter

David Zvi Hoffmann versus Julius Wellhausen on the Age of the Day of Atonement 373 Carla Sulzbach

Fixing God’s Torah in Small Caps: Children’s Bibles, Bible Scholarship, and Contemporary Judaism 409 Jaqueline S. du Toit

Out of the Caves and Under Glass: The Politics of Exhibiting the Dead Sea Scrolls 431 Jason Kalman About the Contributors 483